tage in collection ability of photocarriers over a wide range from ultraviolet to terahertz wavelengths. Hence, the photoresponsivity for graphene has been limited between 10 −6 and 10 7 A W −1. [13-17] Only TMDs (transition metal dichalcogenides) based photo detectors, e.g., MoS 2 , MoSe 2 , WS 2 , and WSe 2 and VII-TMDs, e.g., ReS 2 and ReSe 2 were reported to exhibit photoresponsivity between 10 4 and 10 7 A W −1 for the radiation wavelength in a limited spectrum range. [18-20] The ability to detect IR in vdW interfaces was further explored by combining ReS 2 and ReSe 2 to achieve a maximum responsivity of 3.64 × 10 5 A W −1 at λ = 980 nm. [21] Overall, vdW photodetectors reported so far pose a difficulty in achieving both the high photoresponsivity and wide range detection together mainly for the IR radiation. Moreover, although IR detection was obtained using several narrow bandgap vdW materials but the photodetectors showed drawbacks such as, slow response speed and environmental instability along with low photoresponsivity (e.g., black phosphorous based heterostructures). [22] Recently, Li et al. reported multifunctional properties in the thin film of titanium sesquioxide (Ti 2 O 3), showing both ferromagnetic and even superconducting nature in their two separate studies. [23,24] Moreover, Ti 2 O 3 has also demonstrated a wide range of IR detection capability (due to a bandgap of ≈0.09-0.1 eV) in conjunction with the graphene due to its surface and interface properties. [25] The conductivity at the interface could possibly be due to the Fermi level pinning in the conduction band, which is unusual with narrow bandgap materials. [25] Pearson in 1958 reported an interesting conductivity transition in Ti 2 O 3 under heating conditions [26] and followed by many other reports. Further, in 1981 Mott indicated occurrence of interesting metal−insulator transition in Ti 2 O 3 at 400 K. [27] So far there are no reports on exploiting IR detection capability of Ti 2 O 3 at its transition temperature. Our study provides an exceptional phototransition in granular Ti 2 O 3 upon IR illumination during its transitional state. We report an abrupt enormously large increase in the photoresponsivity for the IR radiation that further provides a deep insight into the transition phenomena in Ti 2 O 3 at 400 K.